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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pen and ink drawing of a standing draped woman in a niche with columns, with a winged putto at lower left.

Allegory or Goddess (Juno?)

Perino del Vaga, 16th century

Pen and wash drawing of robed saints ascending through clouds toward light, with angels and palm fronds.

Apotheosis of Four Martyred Saints (Four Crowned Martyrs?)

Antonio Cavallucci, 17th century

Pastel drawing of blue, yellow and white pansies in a dark brown vase against a tan background.

Pansies

Odilon Redon, 1905

Engraving of a sleeping man in a chair with a nude woman beside him, a winged cupid below, and a bat-winged creature above.

The Dream of the Doctor

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Watercolor drawing of five butterflies in blue, yellow, brown and green scattered across a cream sheet of paper.

Five Butterflies

Odilon Redon, 1912

Black chalk drawing of a young person in three-quarter view with curly hair and loose drapery, in a ruled border.

Figure of Young Man or Woman in Bust-length, in Three-Quarter View

Carlo Maratti, 1700-1713

Young Woman in Profile

Odilon Redon, 1910

Pen and ink drawing of robed men and an armored soldier pointing to a canopied bed with figures in a classical setting.

Christ and the Daughter of the Centurion

Perino del Vaga, 16th century

Hand-coloured 1615 map showing the Zuiderzee, the towns of Muiden and Weesp, rivers and land parcels in watercolour.

Deel van een kaart van het Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland, met Weesp en Muiden

Floris Balthasarsz. van Berckenrode, 1615

Hand-colored 1615 map showing a winding river, lakes, villages and polder boundaries with handwritten place names.

Deel van een kaart van het Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland, met Loenen en omgeving

Floris Balthasarsz. van Berckenrode, 1615

Hand-colored 1615 map of waterways and land parcels with labeled villages, drawn in ink with green, blue, pink and yellow was

Deel van een kaart van het Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland, met Noorden en omgeving

Floris Balthasarsz. van Berckenrode, 1615

Hand-coloured 1615 map of waterways, plots and place names around Breukelen, drawn in ink and watercolour.

Deel van een kaart van het Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland, met Breukelen en omgeving

Floris Balthasarsz. van Berckenrode, 1615

Wood engraving of men in a Baxter Street club-house: card players, a man smoking on a bed, and a reclining smoker.

The Chinese in New York - Scene in a Baxter Street Club-House

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pen and wash drawing of a ruined classical interior with arches, columns, a sarcophagus, and small seated figures.

Ruins of a Basilica or Mausoleum

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1691-1765

Engraved still life of a dense bouquet of carnations, roses and lilies in an ornate urn-shaped vase.

Vase of Flowers

Pieter I. Mortier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1680

Red chalk drawing of a standing female nude with arms raised behind her head, on a tan paper ground.

Nude

Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Dark drawing of a rider on horseback with a lance facing a glowing dragon-like creature under a luminous sky.

Saint George and the Dragon

Odilon Redon, 1880

Print of a bearded man in a turban and a boy carrying firewood beside a donkey, with rocks, a tree, and a distant town.

Abraham's Sacrifice

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510

Pastel and charcoal drawing of a full moon over a calm bay, with dark windblown grasses and a leaning tree in the foreground.

Australian landscape

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1918

Study of a Moor

Study of a Moor

Frederik Vermehren, 1854

Pen and ink anatomical study of muscular forearms and hands with visible tendons, drawn in hatched brown ink.

Anatomical Studies: a left forearm in two positions and a right forearm

Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1600-05

Watercolor of a reedy pond with water lilies, a rowboat at right, and a flat meadow landscape under a pale sky.

Een waterplas in een weiland

Nicolaas Bastert, 1864

Pen and wash drawing of a monumental classical stage set with tiered arches, columns and a receding central arch.

Design for a Stage Set (recto); Fragmentary Sketch of a Stage Set in Elevation (verso)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1718-65

Pen and wash drawing of a theatrical stage set with arches, columns, and ornate vaulting receding in perspective.

Design for a Stage Set (recto); Fragmentary Sketch of a Plan (verso)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1718-65

Ink drawing of a standing nude woman beside a dark bird, set against a dense, cracked, dark textured background.

Naakt met rode vogel

Frits Van den Berghe

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a receding loggia with Corinthian capitals, Gothic arches and a tower in Venice.

Loggia of the Ducal Palace, Venice

John Ruskin, 1849-50

Cubist charcoal drawing of a seated figure and bottles in an angular interior, with fragmentary lettering on the wall.

In de kroezel

Frits Van den Berghe, 1920

Watercolor drawing of snowy peaks, a crowned winged figure bending over a hunched creature, a wolf-like beast and reclining b

Kiss of a Mongolian prince in a glacial desert.

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1915

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie, signed and dated 1864 at lower right.

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

H.W Rowland, 1900

Drawing of a yellow-faced female figure in a flowing white gown beside a blue scorpion under a swirling starry sky.

Antares in Scorpio

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1917

Charcoal drawing of a reclining woman surrounded by dark figures, a girl with a bow, and a bald man, on tan paper.

Figural composition

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1914

Etching of a footed vase with a turtle-shaped lid and faceted finial, resting on a stone ledge.

Vase, plate 18 of "Suite de Vases"

Benigno Bossi, 1760